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Book Synopsis Pacific Islands Disaster Relief by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Download or read book Pacific Islands Disaster Relief written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pacific Islands Disaster Relier Hearings ... 87-2 by : United States. Congress. House. Public Works
Download or read book Pacific Islands Disaster Relier Hearings ... 87-2 written by United States. Congress. House. Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fiscal Buffers for Natural Disasters in Pacific Island Countries by : Hidetaka Nishizawa
Download or read book Fiscal Buffers for Natural Disasters in Pacific Island Countries written by Hidetaka Nishizawa and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacific island countries (PICs) are vulnerable severe natural disasters, especially cyclones, inflicting large losses on their economies. In the aftermath of disasters, PIC governments face revenue losses and spending pressures to address post-disaster relief and recovery efforts. This paper estimates the effects of severe natural disasters on fiscal revenues and expenditure in PICs. These are combined with information on the frequency of large disasters to calculate the rate of budgetary savings needed to build appropriate fiscal buffers. Fiscal buffers provide self-insurance against natural disaster shocks and facilitate quick disbursement for recovery and relief efforts, and protection of spending on essential services and infrastructure. The estimates can provide a benchmark for policymakers, and should be adjusted to take into account other sources of financing, as well as budget risks from less severe as well as more frequent disasters.
Book Synopsis Traditional Disaster Reduction in Pacific Island Communities by : John R. Campbell
Download or read book Traditional Disaster Reduction in Pacific Island Communities written by John R. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pacific Islands disaster relief by : Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives
Download or read book Pacific Islands disaster relief written by Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Disaster Relief Act of 1974 (PL 93-288) Assistance Guide by : Pacific Islands (Trust Territory). Disaster Control Office
Download or read book Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Disaster Relief Act of 1974 (PL 93-288) Assistance Guide written by Pacific Islands (Trust Territory). Disaster Control Office and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Pacific Islands Disaster Relief by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Flood Control
Download or read book Pacific Islands Disaster Relief written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Flood Control and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Flood Control Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :5 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (853 download)
Book Synopsis Pacific Islands Disaster Relief by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Flood Control
Download or read book Pacific Islands Disaster Relief written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Flood Control and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 87-22.
Book Synopsis Climate-Induced Disasters in the Asia-Pacific Region by : Andreas Neef
Download or read book Climate-Induced Disasters in the Asia-Pacific Region written by Andreas Neef and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, contributors look at response, recovery and adaptation to climate-induced disasters, in Asia-Pacific - the world's most disaster-prone region. Chapters examine case studies from Cambodia, Fiji, Solomon Islands and Samoa.
Book Synopsis The Economic Impact of Natural Disasters in Pacific Island Countries: Adaptation and Preparedness by : Dongyeol Lee
Download or read book The Economic Impact of Natural Disasters in Pacific Island Countries: Adaptation and Preparedness written by Dongyeol Lee and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacific island countries are highly vulnerable to various natural disasters which are destructive, unpredictable and occur frequently. The frequency and scale of these shocks heightens the importance of medium-term economic and fiscal planning to minimize the adverse impact of disasters on economic development. This paper identifies the intensity of natural disasters for each country in the Pacific based on the distribution of damage and population affected by disasters, and estimates the impact of disasters on economic growth and international trade using a panel regression. The results show that “severe” disasters have a significant and negative impact on economic growth and lead to a deterioration of the fiscal and trade balance. We also find that the negative impact on growth is stronger for more intense disasters. Going further this paper proposes a simple and consistent method to adjust IMF staff’s economic projections and debt sustainability analysis for disaster shocks for the Pacific islands. Better incorporating the economic impact of natural disasters in the medium- and long-term economic planning would help policy makers improve fiscal policy decisions and to be better adapted and prepared for natural disasters.
Book Synopsis Self-insurance Against Natural Disasters: The Use of Pension Funds in Pacific Island Countries by : Mr.Si Guo
Download or read book Self-insurance Against Natural Disasters: The Use of Pension Funds in Pacific Island Countries written by Mr.Si Guo and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacific island countries are exposed to significant risks from natural disasters. As a disaster relief measure, Fiji allowed pre-retirement pension withdrawls in the wake of Cyclone Winston in 2016. Motivated by this policy action, we provide a normative analysis of the use of early pension withdrawals after disasters, by setting up a life-cycle saving model with myopic households facing large natural disaster shocks. The model demonstrates the key trade-off between building up sufficient retirement savings and ensuring the access to savings against natural disaster shocks, and sheds light on welfare implications of early pension withdrawals.
Book Synopsis Gender, Households, Community and Disaster Management by :
Download or read book Gender, Households, Community and Disaster Management written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Enhancing Macroeconomic Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate Change in the Small States of the Pacific by : Ezequiel Cabezon
Download or read book Enhancing Macroeconomic Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate Change in the Small States of the Pacific written by Ezequiel Cabezon and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural disasters and climate change are interrelated macro-critical issues affecting all Pacific small states to varying degrees. In addition to their devastating human costs, these events damage growth prospects and worsen countries’ fiscal positions. This is the first cross-country IMF study assessing the impact of natural disasters on growth in the Pacific islands as a group. A panel VAR analysis suggests that, for damage and losses equivalent to 1 percent of GDP, growth drops by 0.7 percentage point in the year of the disaster. We also find that, during 1980-2014, trend growth was 0.7 percentage point lower than it would have been without natural disasters. The paper also discusses a multi-pillar framework to enhance resilience to natural disasters at the national, regional, and multilateral levels and the importance of enhancing countries’ risk-management capacities. It highlights how this approach can provide a more strategic and less ad hoc framework for strengthening both ex ante and ex post resilience and what role the IMF can play.
Book Synopsis Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters by : Ingrid Johnston
Download or read book Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters written by Ingrid Johnston and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if a category five monster cyclone was headed your way? Drive as far as you could, as quickly as you could in the opposite direction? What if there were no cars? What if there were no roads? What if you were on a tiny island? What if there was nowhere to run to? How would you feel, knowing that when it was over it could be weeks before anyone came to help? Thousands of people live with this possibility every day, and their resilience and coping skills are incredible. However, climate change threatens to make these events worse, and all the while the sea levels are rising, and these islands are sinking. Bringing together the perspectives of the people on small, remote islands in the South Pacific, the aid organisations who help after a disaster, and the governments, this book investigates how we should respond. These are the stories of people for whom climate change is not a theoretical future, but a daily reality.
Book Synopsis Disaster Relief in the Asia Pacific by : Minako Sakai
Download or read book Disaster Relief in the Asia Pacific written by Minako Sakai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A UN report recently found that the Asia Pacific is the world’s most disaster-prone region. Indeed, considering that the region accounts for more than half of the total number of disasters in the world, building capacity and resilience to mitigate the devastating impact of disasters is a pressing task for local actors. This book takes a regional, multidisciplinary and multi-actor approach to improve understandings of how various actors respond to natural and human-induced disasters in the Asia-Pacific region. It examines the ideas and activities of four different categories of agents: civil society; military and state institutions; local cultural knowledge and the media; and economic initiatives, and these themes are approached from various academic disciplines, ranging from anthropology and cultural studies to economics, human geography and political science. The contributors draw their findings from a variety of countries in the region, including China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar and Samoa, and importantly, focus on the interconnection between vulnerability and resilience. In turn, the book highlights how the nature and magnitude of disasters are influenced by social conditions, and aims to contribute to policies that prioritize development opportunities to enhance resilience. Further, it explores the complicated and multifaceted role of agency in building resilience, and presents a comparative framework for analysis and key findings from the Asia-Pacific region. The focus of this book on recent and ongoing disasters makes it a topical and timely contribution to the growing field of disaster management, and as such it will appeal to students and scholars of environmental studies, development studies and Asian politics.
Book Synopsis An Information Infrastructure for Disaster Management in Pacific Island Countries by : Ken Granger
Download or read book An Information Infrastructure for Disaster Management in Pacific Island Countries written by Ken Granger and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Resilience in the Pacific and the Caribbean by : Simon Hollis
Download or read book Resilience in the Pacific and the Caribbean written by Simon Hollis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the global diffusion and local reception of resilience through the implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) programmes in Pacific and Caribbean island states. Global efforts to strengthen local disaster resilience capacities have become a staple of international development activity in recent decades, yet the successful implementation of DRR projects designed to strengthen local resilience remains elusive. While there are pockets of success, a gap remains between global expectations and local realities. Through a critical realist study of global and local worldviews of resilience in the Pacific and Caribbean islands, this book argues that the global advocacy of DRR remains inadequate because of a failure to prioritise a person-orientated ethics in its conceptualization of disaster resilience. This regional comparison provides a valuable lens to understand the underlying social structures that makes resilience possible and the extent to which local governments, communities and persons interpret and modify their behaviour on risk when faced with the global message on resilience. This book will be of much interest to students of resilience, risk management, development studies, and area studies.
